Recipes

Spaghetti with Fresh Crab, Clams, Mint and Spicy Cherry Tomatoes

Recommended Wine Pairing(s)

• Santa Barbara Pinot Noir

Ingredients

• 1 lb fresh or dried spaghetti
• 1 lb fresh crab meat, picked and cleaned but leaving meat in large pieces
• 1 lb fresh, cleaned clams
• 1 shallot, finely diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup fresh mint leaves, finely sliced
• 2 cups cherry tomatoes
• 1 Tbsp dried red pepper
• 1/2 cup white wine
• 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 Tbsp unsalted butter
• salt and pepper

Directions

• Cook spaghetti in large sauce pan.
• In a large sauce pan, heat 2 Tbsp olive oil over medium heat. Add the shallots and garlic and cook 3-4 minutes or until shallots are cooked. Add butter and melt down. Add the tomatoes and dried red pepper to pan and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add clams and white wine. cover pan and let clams open and wine cook down. Add crab meat and mint to sauce and turn off heat.
• Pour cooked pasta into sauté pan over crab meat mixture, including all the juices on sauté pan. Generously drizzle extra-virgin olive oil over pasta and stir pasta to incorporate crab meat mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve spaghetti in a large, family-style bowl.
• To clean clams, soak them in a bowl of fresh, clean water for 10-15 minutes prior to cooking.
• Serves 4.